Re: FOR070.DAT files appearing

In article <449f4hF125haU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bill@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>
> Maybe you mis-understood what I was advocating. I believe in explicit
> definitions. You know like Pascal, C, Ada and pretty much every language
> since Fortran has required. Declare before use. No implicit declarations.
> If that is going to "cause the cost of maintaining a system to stay up",
> then why did all these languages decide it was necessary?
>
>>
>>> Buffer overflows are not the only example of bad code.
>>
>> Yes. You insistence on over specifying is another example of bad
>> code.
>
> Now I am sure you mis-understood what I said. Where did I advocate
> "over specifying"? I merely said that the Fortran concept of not
> requiring things like variables (and yes, external files) to be pre-
> declared before use was a bad idea dn led to much harder to understand
> programs. Especially after the passage of time and possibly the passage
> of the original writer.

OK, so we're chasing two different horses.

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